Team Talarico

There is something happening in Texas.

Talarico: We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires. Those billionaires buy politicians like Ken Paxton. And then those puppets turn around and rig the rules of the economy in favor of those billionaires at our expense.

This is the crowd to see James Talarico tonight in Ken Paxton’s home county.

More than 4,000 people just showed up in Collin County — which Trump won by double digits.

Leander 🤝 James Talarico

“Those billionaire megadonors... they are afraid of this movement we’re building.” 💯

The line for James Talarico in Leander 🙌

San Antonio 👀

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James Talarico draws HUGE CROWD in deep-red East Texas 🔥

NEW AD: Ken Paxton just released a pedophile back on our streets. Adam Hoffman abused a little boy for 3 years. He should have faced life in prison — but Ken Paxton and his wealthy lawyer friends let Hoffman off the hook. Ken Paxton’s corruption is hurting Texas.

Houston showed up 🤩

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis: “To call Ken Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder.”

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: “I think Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General we've had in my lifetime.”

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

NEW AD: Meet Ken Paxton — the most corrupt politician in America. He’s gotten away with it for years. That ends this November.

.@JamesTalarico: Ken Paxton has a criminal record. I have a legislative record. For over 4 terms in the Texas House, I have gotten Democrats and Republicans to pass more than 60 bipartisan bills and I’m gonna put that record up against Paxton’s criminal record any day of the week, twice on Sunday.

James Talarico: I can’t tell you the number of people who come up to me and whisper, ‘I’m not a Democrat’, including a lot of people who voted for Trump. A lot of the president’s supporters are feeling disillusioned with this extremism and corruption that is embodied by politicians like Ken Paxton.

James Talarico: Ken Paxton is morally unfit for office. He’ll lie to you with a straight face. He’s failed the character test. He’s the most corrupt Attorney General of our lifetime. Those aren’t my words. Those are the words of Ken Paxton’s fellow Republicans.

Q: What do you make of Ken Paxton calling you a vegan? James Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. If all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

Barack Obama 🤝 James Talarico

.@jamestalarico.bsky.social: “The only reason I’m on The View is because of my mom. And she’s actually here with us today. My mom is a fighter. She showed me how to stand up to bullies and that’s exactly what I want to do in the US Senate.” Happy Mother’s Day!

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James Talarico: Find a spiritual practice that works for you and find a community that can help you touch the ground of your being. We’re all expressions of a mystery — that sacred something. You may call it God or the cosmos or love, it doesn’t really matter.

James Talarico: An Amazon worker recently died on a warehouse floor and management told the others: ‘Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work.’ A different world is possible. What if we invested the same resources into peace that we invest into war? What if the only hunger was for justice?

James Talarico: How would our world be different if we truly saw all human beings as expressions of a divine source? Faith leads to service, and service leads back to faith. We all need to get up off of our knees and start swingin’ at the injustices surrounding us.

James Talarico: I’m an elderly millennial. I can’t stay up past 10pm, my joints ache, and my younger cousins call me cringe. They also call me ‘unc,’ whatever that means. But Gen Z — freed from illusions — is uniquely suited to lead us at this moment.

James Talarico: We are living in an era of corruption. I don’t just mean illegal activity. I mean corruption in the deeper sense — the rotting of something from the inside. This is, at its root, a spiritual crisis. And it will require a spiritual solution.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social made a surprise visit to Fiesta!

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: True democracy is nonviolent self-governance of thy neighbor, by thy neighbor, for thy neighbor.

James Talarico: HBCUs like Prairie View A&M receive thousands of dollars per student less than similar institutions. We have a maternal mortality crisis that is three times deadlier for Black women. These are the issues that are at stake in this election.

Why this Prairie View A&M student is voting for James Talarico 👏

James Talarico: John Cornyn said my plan to lower taxes for working Americans would ’explode the deficit.’ My question to Senator Cornyn is, were you worried about the deficit when you gave $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1 percent?

You need to hear why this young Texan is voting for James Talarico 🙌 Great event at Prairie View A&M 🥹

Q: Ken Paxton said requiring the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is a ‘major victory for our moral values.’ Your response? Talarico: I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. The only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

James Talarico: It doesn’t matter who wins the Republican runoff, we’re running against the billionaire megadonors who have taken over our state and our country. We are building a movement here in Texas across all these divides to take power back from those at the very top.

James Talarico: Working Texans are paying more in taxes than they did last year, and they are paying about twice what billionaires are paying. I think we should close these loopholes — and we should ensure that next time tax day rolls around, the average Texan is paying less than a billionaire.

Damarcus Offord on James Talarico: We have an opportunity to elect the next U.S. Senator, someone who's compassionate, who keeps God first, who loves their neighbor.

James Talarico campaigning for local candidates 🙌 Vote Damarcus Offord for Dallas County Clerk!

James Talarico campaigning for local candidates 🙌

James Talarico visits seniors in DeSoto 👏

Republicans say they’re voting for James Talarico: “He knows what working people want.” “I like him because he’s anti-big money in politics.” “He’s not left and right. He supports everybody.” “He seems to just be a truth teller."

James Talarico: People are ready for a politics of love. A radical love — especially for our neighbors who are the most different from us. That kind of politics could transform this country. This kind of politics is not what we've had, but I think people are searching for it.

James Talarico: The kind of religion that says you can treat people however you want as long as you have a personal relationship with Jesus is an abomination. We spend so much time looking for God out there, that we miss God in the person sitting right next to us.

Stephen A. Smith: You’re down in Texas and as a right-winger, you're about to go left because of what you're seeing? Voter: I'm gonna vote for Mr. Talarico, man, 100%. I haven't voted Democratic since I was 20 years old. James Talarico is a different deal. He speaks from the heart.

James Talarico: The most revolutionary teaching in my religion is the teaching to love your enemy. If you’re going to stand up to entrenched power, you're going to get some opponents — but the revolutionary part is that you are called to love your enemies just as you love yourself.

Q: Why do so many on the Christian right seem obsessed with James Talarico? Journalist: The kind of Christianity he’s espousing is a threat to the cultural monopoly that the GOP wants to project over Christianity.

Reporter: There is something about James Talarico that is sending Christian nationalists and MAGA allies into a total spiral. Talarico does something that very few Democrats do — he speaks openly and unapologetically about how his Christian faith informs his moral and political views.

James Talarico: The reason Democrats lost support in South Texas and among Hispanic voters is because we took them for granted. We assumed they were a part of our base and we stopped showing up. We stopped competing for their votes.

James Talarico: Republicans have been attacking me by taking something I say about the border and cutting it off mid-sentence. I have said throughout the whole campaign that our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front AND a lock on the door.

James Talarico: As a millennial, I saw how military disasters like the Iraq war robbed this nation of young lives, of billions of dollars, and of our moral standing in the world. Every dollar we are spending bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar that we are not spending in our communities.

James Talarico: This is a very serious allegation to make in Texas, so I want to say this definitively and categorically: I deny all accusations of veganism. I will give a shout out to the best barbecue joint in Texas, Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor, Texas. Check it out.

James Talarico: There was a promise made by the president during his campaign that he wasn't gonna start any more wars, and now he's started multiple wars just in the first year of his administration. I can sympathize with the disillusionment that some of the folks in the MAGA movement are feeling.

Tim Miller: Would you vote against Markwayne Mullin for a cabinet position? James Talarico: I would. I would be a no on any potential secretary who is not willing to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that's actually focused on public safety.

"We are a threat" 💯

James Talarico: Donald Trump sounds like he’s worried we’re about to flip Texas. The reason these attacks are coming is they are afraid of the movement that we’re building in Texas—working people coming together across all these divisions to take on this broken, corrupt political system.

James Talarico: I have no problem sharing hard truths and disagreeing with the powers that be in my own party. I’m a Democrat because I feel like it’s the best vehicle to unite working people — but if the party is not doing that, I have no problem calling it out.

James Talarico: We’re told there’s not enough money for schools, healthcare, or veterans, but there always seems to be enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world. The president said this was going to be short-term pain, but you tell that to the parents of those fallen soldiers.

James Talarico: There is bipartisan opposition to this new forever war. It’s Democrats, it’s independents, it’s Republicans who don’t want to be sending money to bombs that are killing people in Iran. They want that money spent right here in our communities where it’s needed most.

James Talarico on MAGA’s desperate attacks against him: “Here’s why they’re doing this: There’s another war in the Middle East. There’s a secret pedophile ring and no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars.

James Talarico on the Trump administration calling the war in Iran “short-term pain for long-term gain”: “I’d like them to tell that to the parents of the American troops who have lost their lives. That is not short-term pain. That is pain that will last forever.

James Talarico: Neither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton deserve the honor of representing this great state. Both of them are far more interested in serving their billionaire megadonors than serving the people of Texas.

Analyst: The Texas Democratic primary turnout was the highest EVER in history. Democrats are REALLY enthusiastic. This is tremendous. More people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary. This is extremely, extremely unusual. This is tremendous for Democrats.

James Talarico: They’re scared of the movement we are building. They’re gonna throw everything they have at us. They’re gonna call me a ‘radical leftist.’ They’re going to call me a ‘fake Christian.’ They’ll call us a threat. The only truth is — we are a threat to their corrupt system.

Q: What does your win signal about what voters want? James Talarico: I think people are really sick of the politics we’ve had for the last ten years. The first words out of my mouth on the campaign trail was that the real fight in this country is not left versus right — it's top versus bottom.

James Talarico: No matter what happens in the Republican runoff, we know who we are running against — the billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system.

James Talarico: As a millennial, I saw how military disasters like the Iraq war robbed this nation of young lives, billions of dollars, and our moral standing. We are always told we don’t have enough money for schools but there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

James Talarico: No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.

James Talarico in first interview since his primary victory: My faith teaches me to love my neighbor as myself. Texas has a deep hunger for a different kind of politics rooted in love. The old politics of total war is dying, and we are building a movement to take on this broken system.

Talarico: It doesn’t matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we’re running against — the billionaire megadonors and their corrupt political system. The only truth in that is that we are a threat — a threat to their corrupt system.

Talarico: This new kind of politics is being born right here in the Lone Star State. The number of Texans who have never voted before but showed up in this election is unprecedented. The people of Texas just gave this country a little bit of hope. And a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.

.@JamesTalarico: My grandad was a Baptist preacher who told me at an early age that we follow a barefoot rabbi who gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor. I’m trying to love my neighbor through public policy, I’m trying to make my neighbor’s life a little easier and a little better.